Check-fastening device.



PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908.

.No. &91,149.

R. J. COX. CHECK PASTENING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION I'ILED na. 25, 1907.

ROBERT JULIAN COX, OF MAYBEURY, WEST VIRGINA.

CHE CK-FASTENING DEVICE.

No. s91,149.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1908.

Application filed April 25, 1907. Serial No. 370372.

To all whom it may concm:

Be it known that I, ROBERT JULIAN CoX, a citizen of the United States,residing at Maybeury, in the county of McDowell and State of WestVirginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Check-FasteningDevices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a check-fastening device, the object of theinvention being to provide an article of this character which is simplein construction, effective in operation, and one which can beinexpensively made and easily and quickly applied to cars of existing`types without any material change in the same, and said device is ofsuch a nature that the load in the car serves to maintain said device inits operative relation, by Virtue of which, when said car is loaded, thecheck cannot be removed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification Ihave shown a form of embodiment of the invention hereinafterparticularly described, and, on referring to said drawings, Figure 1 isa perspective view of the body of acar with a portion of one of thesides thereof removed and showing in connection therewith acheck-fastening device comprising my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 aresectional views of a portion of the car with said fastening devicetherein and occupying respectively its operative and inoperativepositions, one of the parts of the fastening device being in section.Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the parts of the device separated fromeach other.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several figures ofthe drawings.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 I have shown the body of a car and designate thesame by 2. The fastening device which is used in connection with saidcar involves in its make-up an elongated rod as 3 and a plate as 4, therod being connected at its rear or inner end in a pivotal manner withthe upper end of the plate 4 substantially centrally thereof. In thepresent case the rod is provided at its rear end with an eye as 5fitting a perforation in the plate. The outer end of the plate ispivotally connected with the bottom of the car body and for this purposescrew-eyes as 6 may be provided, said screw-eyes extending h'oughperforations near the lower corners of the plate 4 and their shanksbeing screwed into the car body.

The forward portion of the rod 3 extends through a perforation as 7 inthe end of the car body and also through a registering perforation inthe reinforcing or face plate 8 fastened suitably to the outer face ofsaid end. Said end has a second opening as 9 consisting of a perforationsituated above the first mentioned perforation and which is adapted toreceive the bill of the hook or return bend 10 located at the extremeforward or outer end of said rod 3 and on which hook or return bend thecheck is adapted to be Suspended, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The plate'Shas a perforation through which said bill passes, to permit the latterto enter the opening or per: foration 9 when it is desired to move thefastening device to its operative position.

Within the car 2 and suitably rigidly fastened to the bottom thereof isa wedge 11 on which the plate 4 of the fastening device consisting ofsaid plate and the rod 3, is adapted to rest when the fastenng device isin its operative relation, whereby the pivotal joint between the plate 4and the car bottom and the pivotal joint between said plate and the rod3 are revented from being brought into horizonta alinement, as, in casethey Were,

it would not be possible to move the rod 3 4 outwardly longitudinally bya pull on the same. In Fig. 3 the rod is represented as having beenpulled forward so that a check can be applied to the hook or bend 10, itbeing assumed, of course, that at this time the car is empty. When thecheck is put on the bill of the hook 10 the rod 3 will be movedrearwardly so as to put said bill into the perforation 9 at which timethe plate 4 will have found a rest or support upon the wedge 11, asindicated in Fig. 2. The car is then filled with coal or other materialwhich byits downward pressure on the plate 4 prevents an outward pull onthe rod 3 for the purpose of effecting the removal of the check on thehook when the car is filled. When, however, the car is emptied, it is asimple matter to effect the removal of the check by a forward pull onsaid rod, owing to the fact that there is nothing in the car actingdownwardly on the plate. When the plate 4 is on the wedge 11 the eye 5fits in a recess 12 in the high part of the wedge. It will be seen thatthe connection between the plate 4 and the bottom of the car 2 when thelooking device is in its operative relation, is between the eye 5 andthe hook 10; in other words, at this time the 4 rod crosses the plate soas to-make a more compact structure. Owing to this relation also it is avery much more diflicult matter to pull the rod 3 forward When a mass ofcoal or other material is resting on the plate than if the rod and platewere at right-angles to each other. In the latter case the rod might bemoved in an endwise direction sufiiciently to remove the check,especially if the material in the car were not packed tightly. The wedge`1 1 prevents the straight portion of the rod 3 from being brought -intohorizontal alinement with the axis of motion of the plate l as, ifthis-were to happen, the rod and. plate Would presenta (lead locked toggleand it would. not be possible to advanee the rod exteriorly of the car.By virtue of the relation of the parts "the rod 3 can, when thefastening device is in working relation, eXtend in parallelism with andclose to the bottom of the car so that no coal can get under the sameand so that the Shock put upon the rod is taken up by the car, wherebythe rod cannot be permanently fiexed.

What I claim is:

The combination of a car, a rod disposed in the car, extending through'the same, and terminating in a check receiving hook, the car having anexteriorseat to receive the bill of said hook, a plate located below therod and jointed to the bottom of the car, the rod being j ointed atitsrear end to the rear end of the plate, the plate and rod constitutinga check-fastening device, and a wedge to support the plate when thecheck-fastening devce ls in 'its operative position, the joint betweenthe plate and the car bottom being between said hook and the connectionbetween the rod and the plate when the checkfastening device is in saidoperative position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ROBERT JULIAN COX.

Witnesses J. B. LUCAS J. J. HUFF

